A New Pair of Glasses for Spring (That Can Be Worn Inside)

The trouble with shopping for eyewear is that it's neither easy nor without importance: Unless you're one of the growing number of men who wears glasses for what they look like — and not just when you're in the sun — chances are this is one purchase you'll have to live with every day. For that, you need someone you can trust, and I don't just mean the nice guy down the block at LensCrafters.

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Now Oliver Goldsmith — he of < target="_blank">the Michael Caine sunglasses — is a man we've trusted for quite some time. But until this spring, that master of the spectacles as fashion wasn't doing much for that afternoon indoors, on the couch, squinting to read the word "Farokhmanesh." Good thing his granddaughter, five years after re-launching the family brand, just dove into the old-fashioned optics business. Her new collection, Legacy by Claire Goldsmith (available in April), has all the flair and attention to detail of the family tradition, only with high-grade lenses and a fused acetate process that allows for new colors that go beyond, you know, tortoise-shell. Which makes for a retro tinge on shapes that are very much 2010 and beyond — no matter whether you're head shape is more < target="_blank">Elton than < target="_blank">Buddy. And if the $375 price tag starts to scare you off, take heart in the highly skilled Italian craftsmanship behind your new favorite rims — and the fact that you'll be able to make sense of "Farokhmanesh" every day from now until next March.

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